I was interested to follow this guide to doing an Arduino FreeRTOS install. It’s a good tutorial and my post here just adds a few more notes around areas that didn’t immediately make sense to me. A...

Build Custom Linux Kernel I was interested to see how to do a Linux Kernel Build from the source code. I followed this guide and while it mostly made sense there were a few areas that I found less ...

There are lots of options for logging in python. In this post I wanted to write down one way to do python simple logging. This method should be fairly flexible across different Read more about some...

Inspired by the Storytelling With Data book I wanted to try applying some of the techniques to some existing charts and graphs. In all the examples I have been limited in not having access to the o...

Grid layouts are an important technique in graphic design. This blog post shows how you can make an Inkscape grid layout using another open source publishing tool Scribus. Inkscape Grid Layout Scri...

The designer Massimo Vignelli once said that you only really need around 6 fonts. The logic of that approach is that rather than spending ages trying to find the ‘perfect’ font from all the thousan...

Timelines are a great way to present events in a chronological order. Timelines can be elaborate, bespoke graphics, but I wanted to see how to make a python timeline plot rather than making one by ...

The Lorentz cipher was a code used by Germany in the second world war. In this post I wanted to explore the general ideas behind it and see if I could implement a simple Python Lorentz Cipher. I’m ...

This post has a selection of software engineering books I’ve found to be particularly useful. Why Books? The internet is great and there are plenty of blog posts and MOOCs online, so why bother wit...

Historic UK Rainfall Data The Met Office Hadley Centre holds (Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets HadUKP) UK Rainfall Data going back to the 1800s. It records the daily average rain fall...